Download or read book Practicing the Medical Humanities written by Ronald A. Carson and published by University Publishing Group.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the humanities contribute to the practice of medicine? How, in practice, can this contribution strengthen physician-patient relationships, improve medical education, and improve patient care? The editors seek to engage physicians, humanists, and patients in a conversation addressing these two critical questions, and readers are asked to consider the future of the medical humanities and their goals: what are the possibilities for the renewal of the humanist tradition of practical wisdom, tolerance, and compassion, and what would this mean for the practice of medicine?